Verint reportedly negotiating billion-dollar merger with NSO Group
Verint is in talks to create one of the world’s largest cybersecurity companies with a merger worth approximately a billion…
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Qualcomm on-device speech recognition reaches 95 percent accuracy
Qualcomm’s on-device voice recognition system now recognizes words and phrases with 95 percent accuracy, a company representative told an audience…
Etron supplying visual sensor modules to self-service Alibaba store
Alibaba online payment arm Ant Financial has adopted 3D wide-angle sensor-based recognition modules from Taiwanese integrated circuit designer Etron for…
ENACOMM partners with DCI to pitch conversational banking
ENACOMM has announced a partnership with Data Center Inc. (DCI) to bring AI-based conversational banking to improve the customer experience,…
Appeals court puts brakes on Facebook class action notification order
Facebook has been granted an emergency stay in its BIPA “faceprints” suit while an appeals court hears arguments about the…
Card manufacturers place orders for Fingerprint Cards T-shape modules
Fingerprint Cards has announced that two major global card manufacturers have placed initial orders for its T-shape module for dual…
Apple receives patents for ultrasonic fingerprint sensors and in-display fingerprint system
An ultrasonic fingerprint sensor system for integration on both the front and back of smartphones is among 44 patents recently…
Microsoft working on automatic bias-detection tool for AI engineers
Microsoft is responding to the growing recognition that bias can be unintentionally embedded in software by developing a tool to…
Australian travel, policing and entertainment sectors see more deployments of biometric technology
As the Biometrics Institute prepares to kick off its 2018 Asia-Pacific Conference in Sydney, biometric technologies are being deployed to…
Researchers unveil new AI gait recognition system
A team of researchers has developed an artificial intelligence system for biometric gait recognition which can verify an individual’s identity…
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